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Farewell, The Auteurs. No big loss, though. New name – same incredible content.

“I suppose, my general sense of anxiety and disquiet about the cinema we’ve got after 100 years — a cinema which is predicated on text. So whether your name is Spielberg or Scorsese or Godard, there’s always a necessity to start with text and finish with image. I don’t think that’s particularly where we should […]

See how tough this gets?

Le regle du jou has posted a statement from Jafar Panahi declaring that he is on a hunger strike in protest of his current imprisonment: I hereby declare that I have been subject to ill treatment in Evin prison. On Saturday May 15, 2010, prison guards suddenly entered our cell, n° 56. They took us […]

One of my favorite movie review quotes comes from Chris Vognar’s review of Donnie Darko, in which he writes that Donnie Darko “may be too ambitious for a debut feature, but ambition and imagination still trump mediocrity any day of the week.” Over the years, that has become my “go-to” phrase to describe movies that […]

In this essay, Nadine Pinède reflects on a 2003 trip to Haiti and on a gathering of the MPP, Haiti’s largest grassroots organization, which focuses on food production and peasant mobilization as a response to poverty in Haiti.

Interpreting Excess: Jean-Luc Marion, Saturated Phenomena, and Hermeneutics By Shane Mackinlay Fordham University Press, 2009 This book could be profitably read as a phenomenological complement to Robyn Horner’s Jean-Luc Marion: A Theo-logical Introduction. As Mackinlay (Catholic Theological College) rightly notes, Marion’s reception in North America has largely been through the portal of philosophical theology, whereas […]

Over at Extravagant Creation, Michael McIntyre has a very interesting post interacting with responses to Bird’s somewhat recent book on Tarkovsky. McIntyre is a great resource for Tarkovsky scholarship, and is often interested in the lack of well-reasoned religious response to his films, asking this time around: Where can one find books or articles that […]

“Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth when you pretend to be other people.”